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• I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

  Chaim Herzog

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  Tags in Nor, Forgetfulness, Dead, Ones, Only, Right, Forget, Forgive, Forgiveness, Bring, Living

• We are all, right now, living the life we choose.

  Peter McWilliams

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Right, Choose, Living

• To do a great right do a little wrong.

  William Shakespeare

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  Tags in Wrong, Right, Little

• The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

  John Adams

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  Tags in Nation, Right, Necessity, Kill

• If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.

  James Callaghan

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  Tags in Contingent, Action, Right, Law

• No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

  Jesse Jackson

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  Tags in Legislature, Free, Their, Government, Surrender, Your, Agree, Right, High, Must, Negotiate, Never, Should, Fly, Limit

• A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

  Thomas Jefferson

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  Tags in Government, Against, People, Right, Refuse

• Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

  Thomas Carlyle

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  Tags in Gracefully, Good, Own, Right, Remember

• For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

  Thomas Carlyle

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  Tags in Good, Right, Things, Man, Judgment

• Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

  Thomas Jefferson

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  Tags in Accustomed, Right, Suffer, Mankind

• Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

  Calvin Coolidge

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  Tags in Right, Mankind

• Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

  John Adams

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  Tags in Liberty, Right, Mankind

• The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

  Confucius

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  Tags in Sell, Inferior, Superior, Understands, Right, Will, Man

• There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Quality, Comedian, Right, Person, Labor

• A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Lay, Assault, Right, Force, Man

• The right of nature… is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Topics in Nature, Power

  Tags in Liberty, Right, Man

• I think it’s unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that’s the human condition.

  Albert Ellis

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  Tags in Fallible, Screwed, Unfair, Right, Human

• What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one’s nose, taking shortcuts.

  Italo Calvino

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Right, Road, Romantic, Finding, Talent, Inspiration

• There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

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  Tags in Possibilities, Wrong, Right, Infinite

• The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Power

  Tags in World, Right, Thinking, Struggle